Free Beacon Joseph Bottum


Selling a Bloody Past

Review: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Future of the Future

Review: 'Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything' by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

Looking for a Decent Society

Review: 'The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World' by Michael Ignatieff

Hoarders and Magpies

Review: 'Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane' by James Delbourgo

Alice McDermott

Looking Backward: A Tale of a World Gone By

Review: 'The Ninth Hour' by Alice McDermott

She Doesn't Understand How Bad She Was, And Still Won't Go Away

Review: 'What Happened' by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Consequences of the Creative Class

Review: 'The New Urban Crisis' by Richard Florida

Fun Without Frisson

Review: 'The Seventh Function of Language' by Laurent Binet

books

The Sorrows of Young Wilbur

Review: 'Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult' by Bruce Handy

Forgettable Meals Forgotten

Review: 'What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories' by Laura Shapiro